Well I changed the command to this, verbatim, and it doesn't launch at all now.
% kdesu 'dolphin --nofork'
...Jeff
--- On Wed, 7/1/09, Kris Moore <kris at pcbsd.org> wrote:
From: Kris Moore <kris at pcbsd.org>
Subject: Re: [PC-BSD Testing] Dolphin Admin Mode Problems
To: "PC-BSD Testing list" <testing at lists.pcbsd.org>
Date: Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 9:39 AM
Ok, i see this same error on 7.1 now as well. I've been testing it on 7.1.1RC2, and I can't get it to fail at all
on there. Are any of you seeing this error on 7.1.1RC2?
Here's a work-around which fixes it on my 7.1 box though, can you guys try and confirm this?
% kdesu 'dolphin --nofork'
--
Kris Moore
PC-BSD Software
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Jeff wrote:
> Kris, you may recall I also had similar issues running Dolphin as root a while back. It was not consistent and therefore difficult to track
> down the root cause, but I got a similar error - "cannot talk to klauncher" or something like that.
>> I just tried it again on brand new system with 7.1 and I have the same problem. I used "kdesu dolphin %i -caption "%c" %u" as the menu
> command.
>> ...Jeff
>>>> --- On Wed, 7/1/09, Ian Robinson <fitchkendall at gmail.com> wrote:
>> From: Ian Robinson <fitchkendall at gmail.com>
> Subject: [PC-BSD Testing] Dolphin Admin Mode Problems
> To: testing at lists.pcbsd.org> Date: Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 2:15 AM
>> Dear Kris:
>> ====================================
> On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Ian Robinson wrote:
> ====================================
> > 2.? GUI Admin -- While opening Dolphin from the GUI in the Admin (root) mode (Start > System > FileManger Admin
> > (sudolphin), it stopped with a blank file list window and the following error message appeared at the bottom of the
> > window:
> >
> > "Could not start process?? Cannot talk to klauncher.? The name org.ked.klauncher was not provided by and .service files."
> >
> ====================================
> Kris Moore replied:
> ====================================
> I'm having trouble duplicating this :( When I run it exactly the same way here, it comes up, and works without
> issues, I can delete files in /root, and navigate elsewhere without issue.
>> Are you doing anything initially which I can try to duplicate this error?
>> ====================================
> RESPONSE:
> ====================================
>> I have tested this repeatedly with the same result on two different computers:
>> [(1) Desktop=HP Vectra VL420 P4 w/ 1.6 GHz, 1 Gb RAM, w/ Nvidia Vanta video using "nv" driver and
> (2) Laptop=Acer Travelmate 4101 P4 Centrino M w/ 1.5 GHz, 2 Gb RAM, Intel 82855 video using "intel" driver.
>> In each case I have started with a fresh reboot and attempted this as the first program selected. The display window is always
> a blank file list window and the following error message always appears against a rose colored background at the bottom of the
> window:
>> "Could not start process?? Cannot talk to klauncher.? The name org.ked.klauncher was not provided by and .service files."
>> What is similar is that each of these two computers were upgraded with RC2 over RC1. Perhaps I should do a fresh install of RC2
> and see if that makes a difference?
>> Otherwise, do you have any suggestions for what information I can send you?
>> Ian Robinson
> Salem, Ohio
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